2017-07-11day-1

-Background knowledge-

If you haven't read the whole book Aesop's Fables, you must have read or heard some of the stories. Farmers and snakes, turtles and rabbits race, wolves come, foxes and grapes … These familiar stories all come from this book. It personifies animals to convey ideas, moral concepts or life experiences, thus achieving the role of teaching people.

It is said that these stories were written by Aesop, a slave of ancient Greece. Because no one systematically edited Aesop in the three centuries after his death, some other stories, jokes and proverbs that appeared at that time and later were also included in Aesop's Fables. Aesop's Fables began to be edited, summarized and sorted out in various languages in the first century, and finally more than 300 articles were sorted out hundreds of years later. Of course, this also includes essays that scholars think cannot be classified as Aesop's stories.

(1485 Italian version of Aesop's fables)

1. Greek wrestling

The wrestler in the picture is printed on four drachma silver coins (an ancient Greek silver coin) used in Aspendos. This scene shows the scene of Greek wrestling (also known as ancient Greek wrestling or Pale) at that time.

Wrestling in ancient Greece was the most popular sport in ancient Greece at that time, and it was listed as an Olympic event in 708 BC. Interestingly, the original ancient wrestling competition was held on the track, and the later ancient Greek wrestling venues were all set as the width of the competitive track: 1 Greek quotation (about 30 meters).

2. Program

The article refers to the beast fighting performance. Colosseum amphitheater, which means Colosseum in the text. For example, the Colosseum, one of the new seven wonders of the world, is the largest amphitheater in ancient Rome.

-A set of phrases-

Wrestling competition

Congratulations on sth. Celebrate sth.

Natural ability? Instinct, talent

Be proud of sth.

At first, at first

go up to ...

Be able to do something, be able to do something.

Dress sth. with seasoning

let go

Set up free publishing

Take care.

pass by

In the shade.

Keep up with sb.

Judge by ... judge by ... ...

keyword

1."impress": As a verb in the text, it means to leave an impression ...; Make a deep impression. Often used in the passive voice to express admiration and surprise. ...

Original sentence: ... then I will be really impressed.

Impress is also marked as a noun; The meaning of impression.

Time left a deep impression on him.

Translated into Chinese, this sentence means "years have left a mark on him". Is it very artistic? You can study.

2. "Recognition": identify with the verbs in the text; The meaning of recognition.

Original sentence: ... He recognized his friend, ...

Recognition also means recognition and confirmation.

I realized my shortcomings.

-Sentence analysis-

1. Aesop said, "In that case, I don't think you deserve praise at all." .

"In that case" and "In that case" are equivalent to "In that case" in Chinese. You can try to make sentences with this phrase ~

"worthy of great praise" and "worthy of great praise" The word "dislike" means "deserved it", which can be followed by good things (such as prayer) or bad things (such as blame). Praise cannot be counted clearly, it is an uncountable noun. So it is beautifully decorated.

"after all" "after all, in the final analysis; In the end, after all. " In that case, I don't think you can get so much praise.

When he was walking around there, he saw a lion lying on the ground, crying in pain.

"Walking around there": In addition to the familiar "about, about", the word about also means "around, everywhere". "Walking around" means "walking around"

Lie down. Lie down. The ing form of a lie does not directly follow ing, but becomes a lie.

So, this is "lying in bed":

But! ! Lie spells the past tense in different ways when lying and lying. Look it up and tell everyone the difference! ~

"See someone do" See someone do something or see someone in a certain state. Androcles saw the lion lying on the ground groaning in pain.

"Pain" means pain. It can be said that someone is in pain, or that what he has done in pain is what he is doing.

3. After a while, Androcles and the lion were caught, and the slave was sentenced to be thrown to the lion after the lion had not eaten for several days.

"After a while": While means "for a while" in addition to "when …". After means "after", which means "after a while".

Sentence doesn't mean "sentence" here ~ sentence means "sentence" when it is used as a verb.

He pulled out the thorn and wrapped the lion's paw, so that the lion could stand up like a dog and lick Androcles' hand soon.

What do you mean, lick … like a dog ~

An ant running around in the sun looking for food met a caterpillar that was almost in the metamorphosis stage, and it had wrapped itself in a hard shell.

"Its change time" combined with the context, this caterpillar later became a butterfly, so the change time refers to its transformation period.

The backbone of this sentence is "An ant met a caterpillar". Running around in the sun looking for food? It describes ants, and the sentence after that describes caterpillars.

What kind of ants meet what kind of caterpillars? Ants running around in the sun looking for food met a caterpillar, which was in a changing period and wrapped itself in a hard shell.

He looked up and felt his wings being flapped by a beautiful butterfly.

A common usage of "I feel finished" is "I feel like I am …". In the article, "He raised his head and felt that he was fanned with the wings of ..." Of course, for better understanding, it can also be said that "the wings are fanning him."

The word "Fan" includes nouns "Fan" and verbs "Incite and Blow".

So the question is coming? Fan or fan?

7. "Look at me now," said the butterfly. "The one you feel sorry for! Now tell me what a good runner and climber you are-if you can keep up with me! "

"The person who makes you feel sorry": Here, sorry doesn't mean "sorry", but "feel sorry and pity". English words are basically polysemous words. As you can see, when a common meaning can't be understood in the context, you must look up its other meanings in the dictionary and then put them in the context to understand. Let's think about the previous plot. The ant said the caterpillar was ugly, so when the caterpillar turned into a butterfly, it said, "You used to think I was miserable, now look at me!" " If you can catch up with me, let's talk. "In short, after the caterpillar completes its metamorphosis, it hangs the little ant with its backhand.

8. Then the butterfly flew into the air, was carried high and far in the summer wind, and was never seen by ants again.

One of the difficult contents in this sentence is "being blown high and far by the summer wind"

Carried here is a passive usage, which means that butterflies are carried to high and far places by the wind, and the literary point can be expressed as "flying freely with the wind";

The wind in summer means being supported by the wind.

All I read today are short stories. Every little story has a moral. In order to let everyone better understand the truth expressed in these short stories, the teacher presented here a bilingual version of "Implication".

1. Don't be proud of your talents: be proud of what you do with them.

Don't be proud of your talents, but be proud of what you have done with your talents.

The courage to take care of others is usually rewarded well.

People who take care of others are always rewarded.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

don't judge a person by the clothes he wears

Special part: the function of grammar

Grammar learning needs systematic learning, which needs to be accumulated over time. We will try to weaken the role of grammar in reading, because we prefer that grammar is only one aspect to help people understand, rather than learning grammar through reading.

Judging the position of an attributive clause and an adverbial clause in a sentence can't help you understand the content for a long time, because if you want to read fluently, you won't stop to analyze the sentence components of each sentence.

If you are caught in the whirlpool of grammar and are obsessed with the tense and sentence components of each sentence, reading will become a very tiring and time-consuming thing. It is also easy for students to have aversion and rejection to reading.

So we hope that everyone will weaken the role of grammar when reading. If you encounter a long sentence, try to break the sentence first or check whether there are phrases in the sentence. This reading will be easier and more efficient.

Today is the first day of reading. I don't know whether you find it easy or difficult. The teacher has been watching the discussion in the group all day and feels that there are three sentences that must be said at once.

1. When you meet a word you don't know, your first reaction should not be to look up the word, but to understand it through the context. There can't be no known words in a sentence, so it is correct to infer unknown words from known words and the general idea of the context. If you still can't understand it from the context, look it up in the dictionary to see what this word means besides the common meaning you know.

2. Grammar is learned by osmosis. Learning alone is boring and meaningless, and it will make people lose interest in English, which is terrible (imagine endless cloze and single choice in junior high school and senior high school). We learn languages to communicate, not to restrict ourselves by rules and regulations.

3. Remember three things: A. Everyone has different needs. B.what suits you is good? C. haste makes waste. Everyone's foundation is different, and the time they can spend studying every day is different. Is this what learning is all about? We are no longer exam-oriented education, and teachers will not limit how much you have learned, as long as you can find a method that suits you ~ ~

There are still 100 days, so we must stick to it ~ we have made a good start, let's cheer together.

Yesterday, we talked about some common misunderstandings in reading English. Let's talk about how to read more efficiently with mint today ~

At the beginning, the two rules that apply to everyone are to form habits step by step.

In order to make English reading a part of your life, you only need to do this in the first 2 1 day:

develop a habit

Progress comes from accumulation: why do we only have three minutes to do things? Because I didn't form this habit. How exactly?

We do things for three minutes because the brain really doesn't like change. The weight of the brain only accounts for about 3% of the human body, but it consumes 20% of the energy of the human body. Constant means no need to think, and no thinking means no need to consume energy.

If our brain decides that a certain behavior is the same as usual, it will maintain it. For example, it is difficult to quit smoking, because the brain feels that smoking is the same as usual and there is no need to change it. On the other hand, if our brain thinks that a good habit is "as usual", it is easy to stick to it.

Whether a plan is implemented or not, the most important thing is whether you did it at the beginning. If the reading target of 100 day still seems too far away, the first thing you should do is to read on time for the first 7 days. Seven days is enough for you to form a habit, whether it's running, getting up early or reading.

After reaching the goal of reading on time for 7 days, the next stage is the goal of # 2 1 day #. The first book was finished in almost 2 1 day. Reading for 10 minutes every day has been integrated into your life, and you will enjoy it more and more. After reading 100 days, it will become a more natural behavior habit.

brick by brick

Effective investment is the guarantee: time is precious. It seems like reading an English book, but not all the English words you read are understood, learned and improved. Some people may yearn for English original works such as Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Gone with the Wind. But when you really read it, you will be unable to read it or swallow it for various reasons.

In fact, the concept of "graded reading" has been popular in the United States for a long time, which is to customize different reading levels according to everyone's reading level, so as to truly open an English book at will and read without barriers.

The reason is just like buying shoes. You can wear shoes as big as your feet.

For example, when you have a vocabulary of 3,000-4,000, you can watch Hamlet, just like you ask yourself to read Historical Records at the age of 3. There is no other way to play except to throw away books and watch TV.

Different English reading materials are difficult to distinguish from each other in terms of vocabulary difficulty, sentence difficulty, background culture and novel structure.

Therefore, if you want to improve your English by reading the original English (this is the best way to learn English, there is no one), you must find materials suitable for your level.

"Then what kind of difficult books should I read?"

Stephen Krashen is a famous American language educator. He devoted his life to second language acquisition and put forward the world-famous "Input Hypothesis Theory".

This theory is simply: to learn this kind of thing, the learning materials should not be too simple or too difficult. Too simple to learn, too difficult to learn.

Input hypothesis holds that only when your reading materials are i+ 1 for you (that is, materials that are slightly more difficult than your current English ability range are neither too simple nor too difficult), your reading input is truly effective, and you can learn from it to the maximum extent, expanding from your "comfort zone" to your "learning zone".

1. Simple: A baby panda is rolling on the ground.

2. What's more complicated is that the round baby panda is rolling on the ground.

3. The biggest complexity: the chubby panda cubs roll on the green land.

If you are now 1, then reading 2 is a valid input; If you are now 2, then reading 3 is a valid input. However, if you are now 1, skipping to read 3 is an invalid input.

I+1 is also the core of our mint reading course. This is reflected in two aspects:

1. For those who have passed the vocabulary test, the four books reasonably rewritten from today: Black Beauty, Two Wan Li under the Sea, King Arthur and Peter Pan are all i+ 1 difficulty. As long as we stick to one step at a time, step by step and persevere, we will certainly make a breakthrough in English reading.

2. The words in [Today's Word List] are pushed according to the reading level, and only words higher than their own level are pushed. For example, your reading level is Level 5, but there are only Level 6 words in My Word List, but there are no Level 7, 8 and 9 words. We don't want everyone to eat a big fat man in one bite. After memorizing some words, we should pay more attention to the application of these words in order to really master them.